Greatest Show on Earth Circus Parade Returns to Streets
Thousands lined the route as Barnum & Bailey's circus staged a traditional street pageant with elephants camels clowns and a caliope. The parade featured floats from Asia Africa Europe and Australia with the Age Chivalry float drawing cheers and the clown band delivering Sousa-like tunes.
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Mum & Bailey
Reas
Evergy
Asia
Africa
Australia
Europe
Sousa
Aly
Acta
Jupiter le
Desperado
Ephant
Menagne
Barnum & Bailey
America
I Ss
Cheerful widow of Jack Haverly dies in New York
Eliza Haverly widow of minstrel impresario Jack Haverly died in a West 123rd Street sanitarium at age sixty. Once peddling Jack Haverly Cold Cream from a Broadway window she supported herself after her husband’s rise and fall, earning esteem among actors and keeping faith with luck. Her life linked to many famed theater figures and ongoing hard times.
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Eliza Haverly
Jack Haverly
West 123d Street
Lillian Russell
Jack
Forty-second Street
Broadway
W. FE. Nankeville
Nankeville
Charles
Daniel Frohman
Montgomery and
Stone
Billy Emerson
George Evans
al Hayman
George Primrose
Willis Sweatnam
Move to Establish State Experimental Station at Farm
Proposal to locate a state experimental station at a Stark county farm requires 1414 signatures to place the issue before voters at the next general election. If approved, funds would come from a tax rate not exceeding one tenth of a mill, with a director and staff managing the project under the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station.
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Rt Farm
Stark County
Ohio Agriculture Experiment Station
Will Test Film Cases For Jeffries Johnson Fight
United Press reports S Lubin of Philadelphia heads a syndicate vowing to fight bans on exhibiting the Jeffries Johnson Reno fight. He says over $2,000 was spent to secure perfect pictures with special lenses and twelve machines at ringside, and the effort to block them will fail in court.
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United Press
New York
Jeffries-Johnson
Reno
S. Lubin
Philadelphia Millenaire Moving Picture
Abandoned Baby Found at Local Hospital Seeks Adoptive Family
Superintendent Frazer reports a three month old baby girl left on a couch at Aultman hospital by Akron guardians. The Schultz family briefly cared for her but returned the child amid domestic troubles. The Salvation Army now cares for the infant and Frazer seeks a legal adoptive home. He also seeks homes for two boys aged four and six.
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Aultman Hospital
Akron
Charles Frazer
Humane
Frazer
Schultz
Johnson Returns as Chicago Prepares for Parade
Two hundred police guard John Arthur Johnson upon his return to Chicago as hundreds of Black residents gather at the Northwestern station. Johnson’s supporters flood the streets with autos and flowers while brass bands await at his home amid concerns of potential trouble. In London a ban on Jeffries Johnson fight pictures is likely as Sir Howell Davies moves to the home secretary.
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United Press
Chicago
Northwestern
John Arthur Johnson
Johnson
Steward
Johnson Yard
South State Street
Pugilist
London
Great Britain
Howell Davies
Home Secretary
Davies
Bucklen’s Arnica Salve Promises Quick Heal
Train, automobile or bogey may cause cuts bruises abrasions sprains or wounds that demand Bucklen's Arnica Salve earth's greatest healer. Quick relief and prompt cure for burns boils sores eczema chapped hands and lips sore eyes or corns supreme. Surest pile cure. 5c at K Hug Drug Co.
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K. Hug Drug Co
False promise marriage led to abuse of Beatrice Fanning
Beatrice Fanning of Toledo says Cameron Keener lured her to marry him then abused her on freight trains from Toledo to St Louis and Topeka. In Belleville three tramps rescued her and police report Keener fled after a fight in Belleville yards. Belleville residents provided aid to return her to Ohio.
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United Press
Belleville
Kansas
Beatrice Fanning
Toledo
Ohio
Cameron Keener
Topeka
Keener
Manhattan
Louis Evans
Evans
Miss Fanning
Cameron
Woodland Avenue
Steamboat Springs
Colo
St. Louis
Detroit Prepares To Welcome Belks With Festive Decor
Detroit readies for a visit by Belk department store executives as workmen finish decorations citywide. The event highlights commerce and local pride with the arrival of guests and a busy downtown scene.
Detroit Hails Elks Reunion With Citywide Decor
Detroit prepares for the B P O Elks annual reunion with Woodward avenue transformed into a purple stucco archway corridor. about 100000 Elks and 200000 guests expected as preparations include hospital and automobile corps and extensive downtown decorations. Grand Exalted Ruler J A Sammis arrives for reception at Pontchartrain hotel.
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Detroit
City of the Straits
Woodward Avenue
Hospital Corps
Automobile Corps
Elks
J. A. Sammis
F. S. Burgess
Hotel Pontchartrain
Gardner Denies Roosevelt Endorsement Story
Gilson Gardner tells reporters at Sagamore Hill that Roosevelt did not endorse Senator Poindexter. Gardner and Poindexter both said the visit was pleasant and showed Roosevelt aligned with Poindexter’s views. No discussion of the senatorial contest occurred during their talks. Senator Beveridge was expected to arrive later.
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United Press
New York
Theodore Roosevelt
Gilson Gardner
Oyster Bay
Roosevelt
Poindexter
Washington
Gardner
Khartoum
Sagamore Hill
Africa
John Burroughs
William Dudley Foulke
Civil Service
Colonel Roosevelt
Burroughs
Foulke
White House
United States
Beveridge
Indiana
Curtiss Sets Up for Beach Flight Trials in Atlantic City
Early today Glenn H Curtiss and his mechanicians toiled with bow wires and rivets as Curtiss watched weather from the Marlborough-Blenheim cupola. He plans a beach takeoff and a 50 mile course trial plus a speed flight to set new records around stake boats marking the ocean speedway. Charles K. Hamilton, fresh from the New York Philadelphia flight, is ready to join in trials this afternoon. Also London reports Winnipeg Rowing Club beat Mayence in Henley Stewards Plate final by two lengths in 7 minutes 52 seconds.
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United Press
Atlantic City
Glenn H Curtiss
Curtiss
Ocean Speedway
Charles K. Hamilton
New York
Philadelphia
London
Winnipeg Rowing Club
Mayence
Germany
Ste Ward
Marriage Licenses Issued in Canton and Alliance Districts
A list of marriage licenses shows James Uhlman and Kethel Texter both of Canton, Alexander Heilig and Laverne Kearney of Alliance, Rudolph Sehaar and Tressie Oehl of Massillon, Joseph Cross and Florence Inder mill of Canton, Edward Parker and May Kalp of Massillon, Oscar Stockli and Millie Yonley of Alliance, Wilbur Courtney and Letha Speak man of Alliance, John McInty and Adda Dutcher of Canton, John Miller and Amanda Mellett of Canton, William Quirk and Mary Broom of Canton.
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Joseph Cross
Florence Indermill
Canton
Edward Parker
May Kalp
Massillon
Oscar Stockli
Millie Yonley
Alliance
Wilbur Courtney
Letha Speakman
John McInty
Adda Dutcher
John Miller
Amanda Mellett
William Quirk
Mary Broom
Estates and guardianship actions listed in court notices
In the estate of William Hannay petition filed to sell claims. In the estate of Jacob Parr will probated. In the estate of Frank Manley will. In the estate of Fred Naumann inventory and appraisement filed. In the estate of Guisippi Martine Dominic Martine appointed administrator. In the guardianship of Vesta Monon final account filed. In the guardianship of Ellen McNeal Ilenry McNeal appointed guardian.
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William Hannay
Jacob Parr
Frank Manley
Fred Naumann
Guisippi Martine
Dominic Martine
Vesta Monon
Ellen McNeal
Ilenry McNeal
Night riders dynamite McGriffin threshing outfit near Vincennes
In Vincennes Indiana night riders blew up Charles McGriffin's threshing outfit seven miles east of the city. A new $900 separator was destroyed and a barn wrecked. The dynamiters came on horseback.
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Vincennes
Ind
Charles McGriffin
Taft plans 10 day New England cruise with family
Beverly Massachusetts July 7 evidence indicates President Taft and his family will take a ten day cruise along the New England coast aboard the Mayflower with stops at Bar Harbor and other shore resorts possibly including the Sylph. Discussion of a special Senate session to confirm a new Supreme Court justice is considered unlikely and not officially announced.
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Beverly
Mass
Taft
New England
Bar Harbor
Senate
United States Supreme Court
Wold
Justice Moody
Moody
Sesson
Brother in Kentucky Tobacco Field Killing
John Riley shot and killed his brother Edward Riley in a tobacco field near Princeton Kentucky after a quarrel over farm work. Riley reported the shooting to neighbors, was taken to Princeton and jailed.
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Princeton
John Riley
Edward Riley
Riley
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